WHII.6 The student will demonstrate knowledge of scientific, political, economic, and religious changes during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries by

a) describing the Scientific Revolution and its effects.

b) describing the Age of Absolutism, including the monarchies of Louis XIV and Peter the Great;
c) assessing the impacts of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution on democracy;
d) explaining the political, religious, and social ideas of the Enlightenment and the ways in which they influenced the founders of the United States;
e) describing the French Revolution;
f) describing the expansion of the arts, philosophy, literature, and new technology.